‘As close as the US gets to Egypt’s pyramids’: how Chaco Canyon is endangered by drilling
Source: Study finds different types of alcohol may affect our emotions differently / Boing Boing
Source: Will You ‘Promise to Protect’? Coalition Urges New Wave of Resistance to Stop KXL | Common Dreams
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EV West, a car shop in California, built the world’s first electric Ferrari.
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Health Canada has advised the band council of Potlotek First Nation in Cape Breton to issue a water advisory after recent water tests showed high levels of iron and manganese. Meanwhile, the band is trying to get its new water treatment facility up and running.
Source: Potlotek First Nation advised its water unfit for drinking or washing – Nova Scotia – CBC News
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For centuries, journalists, academics, and even politicians have been obsessed with the idea of the untouched tribe.
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The Jersey Shore resort town of Asbury Park circa 1900, channeled through vintage high-resolution glass negatives and set to music, produced by the illustrious Ken B. Click Play, then the “Full Screen” icon for the full effect.
Source: Vintage Video: Asbury Park | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos
Source: Why We Must Stop the Flow of Tar Sands Oil | NRDC
Rapa Nui have written a new chapter in their history based upon their cultural values of guardianship, responsibility and accountability for the natural environment
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Source: Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world, study reveals | Environment | The Guardian
Diogenes’ Lantern, near the Brockton Arcade, also boasted imported teas, Italian soft drinks and folk singers
Source: Back in the Day: Riverside joined the Beat generation with 1950s coffeehouse – Press Enterprise
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The garbage patch may cover as much as 2.6 million square kilometers, that is 1.5 times the size of Texas. Similarly to the patch in the North Pacific, the one in the South was formed due to a mix …
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World has three years left to stop dangerous climate change, warn experts | Environment
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Source: One Shipping Company Is Ditching Carbon Emissions For HighTech Sailing | Popular Science
US-born artist Aaron Gach and Egyptian-born musician Cherine Amr speak to the WSWS about their experiences.
Source: Artists who were harassed at the US border speak out – World Socialist Web Site
The Archivist: The Aquatic Ape | The Surfers Journal
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Sabine Jessen discusses Trudeau’s plans to increase offshore oil exploration that undermine oceans protection commitments Canada has made.
Source: Canada Undermines Targets for Protecting Oceans by Increasing Oil Exploration
Journey-based charts from the past can help us track the progression of transportation technology.
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Mexico markets Trump themed tp, proceeds help migrants
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Yet another white guy cast in a non-white starring role
Mexicos ancient city guards its secrets but excavation reveals new mysteries
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The Osage tribe in Oklahoma became spectacularly wealthy in the early 1900s — and then members started turning up dead. David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon describes the dark plot against them.
Source: In The 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money : NPR
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Takers. Of the free resources. Such as clean air. Takers of money, too. Same guys. Duh.
Source: Money to burn: As the wealthy get wealthier, carbon emissions grow in US states
California towns are winning David. v. Goliath battles with oil companies.
Source: Small California Towns Are Facing Off Against Oil Companies — And Winning | naked capitalism
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Cutting Room: Cover Peripherals | The Surfers Journal
In President Trump’s America, Quentin Tarantino might not have been.
Source: What Does the NEA Fund? – 7 Famous Movies Funded by the NEA
Will Amazon Destroy More US Jobs Than China? | naked capitalism
Now we’ll know what the government thought about climate change when it still believed in it.
Source: You Can Now Access The EPA Website As It Existed Before Trump | Co.Exist | ideas + impact
American Whoa: The American Pro Jazzmaster’s Peculiar Pickups | Mike & Mikes Guitar Bar
American jazz guitarists,” Ray admits of only one rival—Parisian gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, whom Emmett worships, obviously patterns himself after, and can’t stand to see in person without fainting dead away.
High-Selectivity Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to Ethanol using a Copper Nanoparticle/N-Doped Graphene Electrode – Song – 2016 – ChemistrySelect – Wiley Online Library
The Carbon Bubble is about to pop / Boing Boing
New Zealand river granted same legal rights as human being | World news | The Guardian
The health of the Great Barrier Reef has entered “uncharted territory” after researchers found there had been mass coral bleaching for two summers in a row for the first time in history.
Source: Great Barrier Reef suffers historic ‘back-to-back’ mass coral bleaching – 9news.com.au
In India, 6,000 tonnes of plastic waste lies uncollected every day. Some of this washes up in Tamil Nadu state where it pollutes and contaminates the food and water of communities living along the Bay of Bengal
Source: Plastic pollution blights Bay of Bengal – in pictures | Global development | The Guardian
Follow the money: Will Trump repay Putin by ending Russian sanctions and killing the Paris climate deal?
Source: Did Putin help elect Trump to restore $500 billion Exxon oil deal killed by sanctions
Is buying something with the click of a mouse worse for the planet than picking it up off the shelf and taking it home yourself? And if it is – would it change the way you shopped?
Source: Online vs offline shopping: which is better for the environment? | DW Environment
I was delighted to see giant basking sharks on a recent trip to Scotland, but such moments of wonder are rare. Creating fishing reserves would allow our oceans to recover – and preserve this incredible feeling
Source: The primal thrill of sharks: the emotional case for rewilding the sea | The Guardian
At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them
Source: We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years | The Guardian
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